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May 5, 1989 • Vol. 20, No. 18
5,500 athletes, 5,000 cultural
participants, and 20,000
spectators are expected to
arrive in Vancouver for the
eight-day extravaganza.
Gay Games
gearing up
for 1990
festivities
by Bill Strubbe
August 4, 1990, may seem like a long
way off, but for those intending to par-ticipate
in the Gay Games III, registration
for sporting events begins in July 1989,
and the event's Vancouver organizers are
currently soliciting artists, performers,
and writers for the cultural aspects of the
festivities.
"Like every Lesbian and Gay or-ganization
I know, the Gay Games Ill is
trying to put on a Cadillac show with a
Volkswagen budget," said media coor-dinator
Barry McDell. Despite the in-herent
budgetary limitations, Vancouver's
Celebration '90: Gay Games El and Cul-tural
Festival promises to be even bigger
and more spectacular than the two pre-vious
Gay Games, held in San Francisco.
A projected 5,500 athletes, 5,000 cultural
participants, and 20,000 spectators are
expected to arrive in the western
Canadian province of British Columbia '
for the eight-day extravaganza.
Besides location, a number of other
changes in store for Gay Games III, in-cluding
some new sports events. Added
to Gay Games 11's 17-sport field will be
water polo, equestrian, race walking,
golf, martial arts, squash, badminton,
touch football, and croquet. Curling and
ice hockey will be presented as exhibition
Continued on page 11
Ruling in sex bias
case may. help Gays 3
Marine convicted of
'indecent acts' released 3
Judge reduces award
to Rock Hudson's lover 15
Boston College students
protest prof's plight 16
A drink from the
well of alienation 19
750 Outside of D.C./Baltimore Areas
THE GAY WEEKLY
Court reinstates Army sergeant,
but denies a broader ruling
by Lou Chibbaro Jr.
A federal appeals court Wednesday or-dered
the Army to reinstate openly Gay
Sgt. Perry Watkins into active duty, but
refused to affirm an earlier ruling forcing
the military to end its blanket ban on all
Gays.
The 9th US. Circuit Court of Appeals
in San Francisco ruled 7 to 4 that the
Army could not forcibly discharge Wat-kins
because of his homosexuality, based
on the narrow grounds that Army offi-cials
had drafted Watkins and had
repeatedly re-enlisted him over a 14 year
period while knowing he was Gay.
The majority decision, written by
Judge Harry Pregerson, states, "This is a
case where equity cries out and demands
that the Army be [prevented] from refus-ing
to re-enlist Watkins on the basis of
his homosexuality."
But the ' seven judges joining in the
majority refused to affirm a February
1988 ruling by a three-judge panel of the
same court, which held that Gays enjoyed
the same constitutional protections
against discrimination by the military as
racial minorities. That ruling, issued by
justices appointed by former President
Jimmy. Carter, was vacated last October
when the full appeals court agreed to a
request by the Army to rehear the case.
Gay rights attorney Leonard Graff
called Wednesday',s decision a modest,
but important, victory for Gay rights be-cause
it forces the Army to reinstate Wat-kins,
enabling him to disprove the
military's claim that Gays are incom-
The Aritt; drafted Watkins and re-enlisted
him over a 14 year period
while knowing he was Gay.
patible to military service.
Watkins was drafted in 1967 during the
Vietnam War and served unti11981, when
he was denied re-enlistment. He received
the highest possible performance ratings
for his work and was highly praised by
his commanding officers while stationed
in the U.S. and Korea.
Court records show the Army drafted
Watkins despite the fact that he checked a
box on a pre-induction form admitting
that he had "homosexual tendencies."
Records also show that Watkins was
openly Gay throughout his years in the
Army yet received permission to re-enlist
Continued on page 4
Judging from their T-shirts, it's a good bet that Maxine Hockley
and Nancy Clack will be racing to the television to watch the
Kentucky Derby this weekend.
E NATION'S CAPITAL
mmmimimmmimm•mseommm
ACT UP members said many
people with AIDS won't join
placebo trials because they
see them as 'medically-sanc-tioned
Russian Roulette.'
11•11111111111111111111111111•111111111=111111111•1111.111111111
Activists say
improved drug
approval plan
is 'a failure'
by Lisa M. Keen
AIDS activists engaged in lively
dialogue Tuesday morning at the National
Institutes of Health with a presidentially
mandated committee seeking to find
ways to speed up the federal govern-ment's
AIDS drug approval process.
Three members of New York's AIDS
Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT-UP)
were invited by the National Committee
to Review Current Procedures for Ap-proval
of New Drugs for Cancer and
AIDS to speak about their concerns, as
were a number of representatives from
other groups concerned about AIDS.
The ACT-UP members repeated
now-familiar complaints that the Food
and Drug Administration's drug approval
process is unnecessarily cumbersome and
slow and that people with AIDS should
not be expected to participate in drug tri-als
where some might receive placebos
instead of promising AIDS drugs.
But the activists also raised some rela-tively
new concerns—that the FDA's at-tempts
at speeding up the approval
process have already failed and that
people infected with the AIDS virus are
having serious difficulties finding out
what drug trials are available to them.
One ACT-UP member, James Eigo,
told the committee that although the
FDA's "Treatment Investigational New
Drug" status—Treatment 1ND—was im-plemented
last year to speed up the ap-proval
of AIDS drugs, it has, instead,
"delivered less than promised to too few
people."
Thus far, only three AIDS-related
drugs have been approved for wider dis-tribution
under the Treatment IND status,
The problem.,,.. 4.—to Eigo and
others, is thaVkYA.,offitiali .have ap-peared
to "'change their minds" several
times about hOw to .-intpipfelAe Treat-ment
INDIregulation§. '
Eigo and4he,other „ACT-UP meMbers
testifying also;411hig4N-ipSiesear-chers'
continue ifstèncti On drug trials
which use placebos as a control against
Continued on page 9 • . •

May 5, 1989 • Vol. 20, No. 18
5,500 athletes, 5,000 cultural
participants, and 20,000
spectators are expected to
arrive in Vancouver for the
eight-day extravaganza.
Gay Games
gearing up
for 1990
festivities
by Bill Strubbe
August 4, 1990, may seem like a long
way off, but for those intending to par-ticipate
in the Gay Games III, registration
for sporting events begins in July 1989,
and the event's Vancouver organizers are
currently soliciting artists, performers,
and writers for the cultural aspects of the
festivities.
"Like every Lesbian and Gay or-ganization
I know, the Gay Games Ill is
trying to put on a Cadillac show with a
Volkswagen budget," said media coor-dinator
Barry McDell. Despite the in-herent
budgetary limitations, Vancouver's
Celebration '90: Gay Games El and Cul-tural
Festival promises to be even bigger
and more spectacular than the two pre-vious
Gay Games, held in San Francisco.
A projected 5,500 athletes, 5,000 cultural
participants, and 20,000 spectators are
expected to arrive in the western
Canadian province of British Columbia '
for the eight-day extravaganza.
Besides location, a number of other
changes in store for Gay Games III, in-cluding
some new sports events. Added
to Gay Games 11's 17-sport field will be
water polo, equestrian, race walking,
golf, martial arts, squash, badminton,
touch football, and croquet. Curling and
ice hockey will be presented as exhibition
Continued on page 11
Ruling in sex bias
case may. help Gays 3
Marine convicted of
'indecent acts' released 3
Judge reduces award
to Rock Hudson's lover 15
Boston College students
protest prof's plight 16
A drink from the
well of alienation 19
750 Outside of D.C./Baltimore Areas
THE GAY WEEKLY
Court reinstates Army sergeant,
but denies a broader ruling
by Lou Chibbaro Jr.
A federal appeals court Wednesday or-dered
the Army to reinstate openly Gay
Sgt. Perry Watkins into active duty, but
refused to affirm an earlier ruling forcing
the military to end its blanket ban on all
Gays.
The 9th US. Circuit Court of Appeals
in San Francisco ruled 7 to 4 that the
Army could not forcibly discharge Wat-kins
because of his homosexuality, based
on the narrow grounds that Army offi-cials
had drafted Watkins and had
repeatedly re-enlisted him over a 14 year
period while knowing he was Gay.
The majority decision, written by
Judge Harry Pregerson, states, "This is a
case where equity cries out and demands
that the Army be [prevented] from refus-ing
to re-enlist Watkins on the basis of
his homosexuality."
But the ' seven judges joining in the
majority refused to affirm a February
1988 ruling by a three-judge panel of the
same court, which held that Gays enjoyed
the same constitutional protections
against discrimination by the military as
racial minorities. That ruling, issued by
justices appointed by former President
Jimmy. Carter, was vacated last October
when the full appeals court agreed to a
request by the Army to rehear the case.
Gay rights attorney Leonard Graff
called Wednesday',s decision a modest,
but important, victory for Gay rights be-cause
it forces the Army to reinstate Wat-kins,
enabling him to disprove the
military's claim that Gays are incom-
The Aritt; drafted Watkins and re-enlisted
him over a 14 year period
while knowing he was Gay.
patible to military service.
Watkins was drafted in 1967 during the
Vietnam War and served unti11981, when
he was denied re-enlistment. He received
the highest possible performance ratings
for his work and was highly praised by
his commanding officers while stationed
in the U.S. and Korea.
Court records show the Army drafted
Watkins despite the fact that he checked a
box on a pre-induction form admitting
that he had "homosexual tendencies."
Records also show that Watkins was
openly Gay throughout his years in the
Army yet received permission to re-enlist
Continued on page 4
Judging from their T-shirts, it's a good bet that Maxine Hockley
and Nancy Clack will be racing to the television to watch the
Kentucky Derby this weekend.
E NATION'S CAPITAL
mmmimimmmimm•mseommm
ACT UP members said many
people with AIDS won't join
placebo trials because they
see them as 'medically-sanc-tioned
Russian Roulette.'
11•11111111111111111111111111•111111111=111111111•1111.111111111
Activists say
improved drug
approval plan
is 'a failure'
by Lisa M. Keen
AIDS activists engaged in lively
dialogue Tuesday morning at the National
Institutes of Health with a presidentially
mandated committee seeking to find
ways to speed up the federal govern-ment's
AIDS drug approval process.
Three members of New York's AIDS
Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT-UP)
were invited by the National Committee
to Review Current Procedures for Ap-proval
of New Drugs for Cancer and
AIDS to speak about their concerns, as
were a number of representatives from
other groups concerned about AIDS.
The ACT-UP members repeated
now-familiar complaints that the Food
and Drug Administration's drug approval
process is unnecessarily cumbersome and
slow and that people with AIDS should
not be expected to participate in drug tri-als
where some might receive placebos
instead of promising AIDS drugs.
But the activists also raised some rela-tively
new concerns—that the FDA's at-tempts
at speeding up the approval
process have already failed and that
people infected with the AIDS virus are
having serious difficulties finding out
what drug trials are available to them.
One ACT-UP member, James Eigo,
told the committee that although the
FDA's "Treatment Investigational New
Drug" status—Treatment 1ND—was im-plemented
last year to speed up the ap-proval
of AIDS drugs, it has, instead,
"delivered less than promised to too few
people."
Thus far, only three AIDS-related
drugs have been approved for wider dis-tribution
under the Treatment IND status,
The problem.,,.. 4.—to Eigo and
others, is thaVkYA.,offitiali .have ap-peared
to "'change their minds" several
times about hOw to .-intpipfelAe Treat-ment
INDIregulation§. '
Eigo and4he,other „ACT-UP meMbers
testifying also;411hig4N-ipSiesear-chers'
continue ifstèncti On drug trials
which use placebos as a control against
Continued on page 9 • . •